The Task Is Finally Given
Due to the rapidly rising coronavirus, we had to cut our vacation short. I was sad to leave the Big Island, especially the volcanic craters. I had managed to give a blood offering to Madame Pele the day before, using a picked up piece of volcanic stone to cut myself, putting it on the rock, and tossing it into a steam vent. She gratefully accepted the offering.
I could feel her in the room as I packed up the remaining items I wouldn’t need and as I finished up, I could tell she wanted to talk.
“I want you to do something for me.”
This struck me as odd. What could she genuinely want from me? I nodded.
“You haven’t been given any tasks this week. There is only one task. You will make a grimoire for me.”
“If that is what you’re wanting, then I will do my best to see it through. Forgive me, but I find it hard to believe that there isn’t one already in existence. Anybody that comes to Hawaii knows who you are and they get ten million visitors a year. How can there not be one already created?”
“There are private grimoires that will likely never be public. I want yours to be available to those that wish to call upon me.”
This was a large task. While she and I had discussed a few things in relation to magick, there was nothing discussed about producing a grimoire for her. “I don’t understand. We could’ve talked about this over the past week. I could’ve taken notes, started preparing rituals. I’m exceptionally thankful and honored to have spent my time with you, but I don’t understand why some local person on any one of the islands couldn’t have done this.”
She didn’t say anything at first. I felt Belial and Abaddon enter the area and realized that this had been the plan from the beginning. I quickly checked to make sure my family was still out of earshot.
“Why wasn’t I just told this from the beginning? It would’ve saved some time. I’ve been waiting and asking for tasks all week.” It was met with silence.
Madame Pele stepped in front of my view. “Will you do it?”
“It will take about a year.” Belial said from behind her. Abaddon remained silent.
I nodded, zipped my suitcase, and left the room.
The Work Begins
Upon returning from the Big Island, I started working with Pele on the substance of the grimoire. I was told to set it aside twice to work through other books over the span of about a year, before being told to pick it back up. It had been hanging over my head and I felt it disrespectful to keep putting it aside. My interactions with Pele continued, just not the grimoire work.
It is important to understand that as Madame Pele is gray and neither entirely good or bad, some of the beneficial rituals could also be used for harm, if one was interested, with few modifications needed. I am not here to moralize or debate what anyone else considers right or wrong. We’re big enough girls and boys to make our own decisions and whatever consequences may or may not be caused from those decisions. I have done every ritual in this book. Most several times. Follow your own compass.
The book will start off with a baseline set of abilities and workings to help ensure that someone picking this up will be able to complete many of the rituals in it that they’re interested in. It is expected that the practitioner will have some experience with meditation, be able to feel energy and/or visualize it in the absence of feeling it. You don’t have to be really experienced to work through this book. It will be easier if you are, though.
There are also sections for Hi’iaka and Kamohoalii, who came to speak with me at different times. Their sections are smaller than Pele’s, but some of their teachings were folded into the beginning section, when more appropriate to do so (the structuring exercise, for example, came from Hi’iaka).
First, she asked for a Dedication to learning from her.
A Dedication To Pele
This dedication is a way to forge a link between the magician and Madame Pele. It’s a formal request to her to ask for her instruction. It isn’t meant to be an exclusive agreement where one is dedicated solely to Pele. It is more of a verbal promise to open oneself up to her and request her knowledge and, if needed, intervention in their lives. Feel free to edit it to your satisfaction, that it may meet your needs. Be sure to have a means of communication set up before starting the ritual, if your inner senses aren’t developed enough for communication. Prepare any offerings and have them nearby.
- Calm your mind and get into a quiet state to prepare for the ritual.
- Banish the area using your preferred method.
- Call upon Madam Pele, to invite her into your ritual space.
4.When you sense that she has come and is standing by, begin the dedication text.
“Madame Pele,
Goddess of Destruction,
Destroyer through Fire,
Creator through Lava.
I, _______, call upon you.
I ask your Fire to burn away my impurities.
I ask your Lava, your Molten Earth, to melt away my inner and external obstacles.
I ask your Spirit to ignite and energize mine.
I ask you to take me on as a (student/disciple/devotee),
to learn the ways of Destruction and Creation.
(If there are offerings)
“Please accept these offerings
(of blood/smoke/earth/air/fire),
given freely.”
- If you have a means of communication, use that to verify that she has accepted your dedication to her.
- If you do not have a means of communication, ask her for a sign within a stated amount of time, such as a week.
“Would you please show me a sign of your acceptance of this dedication within the next seven days?”- If you feel she has accepted -
“Thank you for your acceptance, Madame Pele.”
- If you feel she has accepted -
- Close the ritual.
“Madame Pele, I thank you for coming. Please leave at your discretion.”
"It is done.”
Banish the area, clean up, and leave the space.
Edit - the Summary for this got misplaced in my document. Please see the rest of it Here